Over here: the first world war and American society is Kennedy’s anniversary book of an original called, exploring domestic American experience of World War 1. Kennedy goes through and analyzes his thoughts on the events that occurred during the long nineteen months of the war and his thoughts the aftermath of the war and what it did to American society. Kennedy feels like people need to grasp this country history in order to understand what it happening today. The entire book is covering the internal American involvement of the war, for example he talks about the Homefront of the war during the book and how the different situations of war changes a perspective. The book begins with Kennedy explains how the risks were so high for American people.
